Asian Ethnology Podcast

Interview with John Powers: Tibet's Rivers, Climate Change, and Environmental History

Interviewer: Ben Dorman

Recorded 15 March 2021

In this episode, John Powers (Deakin University) discusses an interdisciplinary project involving historians, anthropologists, scientists, and folklorists concerning rivers that originate in Tibet, which play a key role in global hydrological cycles yet are in crises as a result of multiple threats.

Music used with kind permission of the performer, shamisen master Koji Yamaguchi.